The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (eBook)

Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, Jonathan Roberts, Christopher Rowland (Herausgeber)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-24115-8 (ISBN)

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This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.

• An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century
• Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context
• Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature
• Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it

Rebecca Lemon is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England (2006), as well as articles on Mary Wroth and Petrarchism, Shakespeare and Agamben, and Hayward and censorship.

Emma Mason is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (2006), Nineteenth Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (with Mark Knight, 2006), and The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth (2009), and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (with Michael Lieb and Jonathan Roberts, 2010).

Jonathan Roberts is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of William Blake's Poetry (2007), The Bible for Sinners (with Christopher Rowland, 2008), Blake. Wordsworth. Religion. (2010), and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (with Michael Lieb and Emma Mason, 2010).

Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor of Holy Exegesis at the University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of books, including The Nature of New Testament Theology (2006), Revelation Through the Centuries (with Judith Kovacs, 2003), and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock, 2002), all published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is Consultant Editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (edited by Michael Lieb, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts, 2010), and together with John Sawyer, Judith Kovacs, and David Gunn, he also edits the Blackwell Bible Commentary series.

Inhalt

List of Contributors ix

Part I Introduction 1

1 General Introduction

Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts 3

2 The Literature of the Bible

Christopher Rowland 10

3 Biblical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory

David Jasper 22

Part II Medieval 39

4 Introduction

Daniel Anlezark 41

5 Old English Poetry

Catherine A. M. Clarke 61

6 The Medieval Religious Lyric

Douglas Gray 76

7 The Middle English Mystics

Annie Sutherland 85

8 The Pearl-Poet

Helen Barr 100

9 William Langland

Sister Mary Clemente Davlin, OP 116

10 Geoffrey Chaucer

Christiania Whitehead 134

Part III Early Modern 153

11 Introduction

Roger Pooley 155

12 Early Modern Women

Elizabeth Clarke 169

13 Early Modern Religious Prose

Julie Maxwell 184

14 Edmund Spenser

Carol V. Kaske 197

15 Mary Sidney

Rivkah Zim 211

16 William Shakespeare

Hannibal Hamlin 225

17 John Donne

Jeanne Shami 239

18 George Herbert

John Drury 254

19 John Milton

Michael Lieb 269

20 John Bunyan

Andrew Bradstock 286

21 John Dryden

Gerard Reedy, S.J. 297

Part IV Eighteenth Century and Romantic 311

22 Introduction

Stephen Prickett 313

23 Eighteenth-Century Hymn Writers

J. R. Watson 329

24 Daniel Defoe

Valentine Cunningham 345

25 Jonathan Swift

Michael F. Suarez, S.J. 359

26 William Blake

Jonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland 373

27 Women Romantic Poets

Penny Bradshaw 383

28 William Wordsworth

Deeanne Westbrook 397

29 S. T. Coleridge

Graham Davidson 413

30 Jane Austen

Michael Giffin 425

31 George Gordon Byron

Wolf Z. Hirst 438

32 P. B. Shelley

Bernard Beatty 451

Part V Victorian 463

33 Introduction

Elisabeth Jay 465

34 The Brownings

Kevin Mills 482

35 Alfred Tennyson

Kirstie Blair 496

36 The Brontës

Marianne Thormählen 512

37 John Ruskin

Dinah Birch 525

38 George Eliot

Charles LaPorte 536

39 Christina Rossetti

Elizabeth Ludlow 551

40 G. M. Hopkins

Paul S. Fiddes 563

41 Sensation Fiction

Mark Knight 577

42 Decadence

Andrew Tate 587

Part VI Modernist 601

43 Introduction

Ward Blanton 603

44 W. B. Yeats

Edward Larrissy 617

45 Virginia Woolf

Douglas L. Howard 629

46 James Joyce

William Franke 642

47 D. H. Lawrence

T. R. Wright 654

48 T. S. Eliot

David Fuller 667

49 The Great War Poets

Jane Potter 681

Index 696

Rezensionen

"This is indeed a true companion, one that succeeds in its aim of being both scholarly and accessible to all lovers of English literature. In short, all students of English literature ought to put aside a month to read and study this book before going up to university." (Church Times)

"Probably what comes across most clearly is how, and that, many of the writers chose deliberately to draw on the Bible, and for students increasingly unfamiliar with the Bible, this approach challenges as well as informs." (Reference Reviews)

"An extremely useful volume." (The Year's Work in English Studies)

"This magnificent collection completely re-imagines the vast
and well-trodden field of the Bible and Literature. From Chaucer to
T. S. Eliot, The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English
Literature offers a compelling narrative of how the English
literary tradition has itself used, re-written and re-visioned
sacred texts. In my view, the result is indispensable reading
- a Bible no less - for students and scholars
alike."

--Arthur Bradley, Lancaster University

"This is an extremely valuable resource for students,
scholars, and anyone else interested in the relationship between
the Bible and English Literature. Through a series of stimulating
essays, the editors and contributors highlight the unparalleled
importance of the Bible within the literary tradition. They explore
the multitude of ways in which this sacred text has both shaped and
been shaped by the imagination of writers. Our thinking will be
much richer as a result of what this book has to say."

--Mark Knight, Roehampton University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: across • Bibel • Bibel als literarisches Werk • Bible • Bible as Literature • Bibles • Blackwell • Book • builds • Companion • demonstrates • Doctrinal • English • Examination • Examples • existing • Individual • Interdisciplinary • Literary Criticism & History • Literatur • Literature • Literaturkritik u. -geschichte • Literaturwissenschaft • Medieval • Old • periods • Poetry • Religion • Religion & Culture • Religion & Theology • Religion u. Kultur • Religion u. Theologie • wideranging • Work • writers
• ISBN-10: 1-118-24115-0 / 1118241150
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-24115-8 / 9781118241158